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 FTI® Announces the Release of FASTFORM MultiStage
FTI® today unveiled FASTFORM MultiStage. FASTFORM MultiStage
utilizes a hybrid analysis approach (Finite Increment Technology {FIT}) that combines
the ability to quickly determine blank shapes with the detailed process analysis of
incremental solvers. The new breakthrough technology runs 1 to 2 orders of magnitude
faster than traditional explicit and implicit incremental solvers that are on the market
today. |
multistagepressrel.pdf |
Nov 10/08 |
FTI® Announces the Release of FormingSuite 7.0 FAST Incremental
FTI® announces the release of FormingSuite FAST Incremental. FAST
Incremental is a powerful explicit incremental analysis tool based on the tried and
proven LSTC LS-Dyna solver. It is the only associative and regenerative incremental
solution on the market today and is the latest technology advancement from Forming
Technologies Inc. |
fastincpressrel.pdf |
Sep 9/08 |
FTI® - 4th Annual Conference at the IFU in Stuttgard, Sept 24th, 2008
FTI® is pleased to announce their fourth annual conference in Germany. The conference will take place on September 24th at the Institut für Umformtechnik, Universität Stuttgart, Universitätsstraße 38, Auditorium 38.02 Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Deutschland. This year's theme is "Early Cost Identification and Reduction to Enable a Compound 15% Cost Reduction." |
ifuconferencepressrel.pdf |
Sep 5/08 |
FTI® Continues Growth in China
FTI® and DNE, currently the largest Dassault Systemes Business Partner
and the most experienced solutions provider in China, announce an agreement designed
to enable DNE to be a Preferred partner of FTI® software and further strengthening its
local support in China. |
dnepressrel.pdf |
Jun 27/08 |
FTI® Opens Office in China
FTI® today announced the opening of Forming Technologies Asia Ltd. located in Hong
Kong. FTI® Asia will play a key role in deploying FTI® solutions as well as offer local
support in the role of a preferred systems integrator for the Chinese market place. |
ftichinaoffice.pdf |
Jun 24/08 |
FTI® Announces the Addition of Two New
Industry Training Programs
FTI® today announces the expansion of two new industry training programs; Stamping Cost Optimization Workshop and Advanced Stamping
Materials. These two new industry standard courses are in addition to the already enhanced training programs currently being offering to engineers and tool & die makers
around the world. |
scowtrainpressrel.pdf |
Mar 10/08 |
FTI® Announces Strategic Partnership with LSTC
FTI® announces a new strategic partnership with Livermore Software Technology
Corporation (LSTC), the developers of LS-DYNA, a general purpose transient dynamic
finite element program capable of simulating complex real world problems. |
lstcpressrel.pdf |
Feb 20/08 |
FTI® Releases CATTube CAA V5 Based
FTI® today announces the release of their newest Catia module, CATTube CAA V5 based. By
leveraging CATIA V5’s parametric design and analysis environment, CATTube’s fully associative
and regenerative features drastically reduce downstream design changes. |
cattubev5pressrel.pdf |
Feb 7/08 |
FTI® announces Renewal of Corporate Agreement
with Magna International
FTI® and Magna International, a global supplier of technologicallyadvanced
automotive systems, components and complete modules, announce the renewal
of their Corporate Wide Agreement designed to further enhance Magna's global
purchasing strategies. |
magnapressrel.pdf |
Jan 14/08 |
FTI® Continues Growth Expansion in Mexico
FTI® and INCAT, today announced an agreement designed to enable INCAT Mexico to be a preferred
partner of FTI® software and further strengthening its local support in Mexico. |
incatmexicopressrel.pdf |
Nov 26/07 |
FTI® Announces the Release
of FormingSuite ProgNest for Progressive Dies
FTI® announces the release of FormingSuite ProgNest. ProgNest
is powerful nesting software specifically designed for nesting sheet metal blanks on
progressive die strips. It automatically calculates the best progressive nesting layout to
optimize material utilization based on coil width and pitch, and other constraints. |
prognestpressrel.pdf |
Oct 23/07 |
FTI® Continues Growth Expansion in Portugal and Spain
FTI® and Teracad, today announced an agreement designed to enable Teracad to be a preferred
partner of FTI® software and further strengthening its local support in Portugal and Spain. |
teracadpressrel.pdf |
Oct 2/07 |
FTI® Announces the
Release of Catia Based ProgNest
FTI® announces at the COE 2007 Automotive Industry Workshop in
Dearborn, the global release of Catia ProgNest R18 CAA V5 based. ProgNest is the
only tool in Catia for Nesting Sheet Metal Blanks on Progressive Die Strips. |
catiaprognestpressrel.pdf |
Oct 2/07 |
FTI® Releases Largest Portfolio of Forming Feasibility and Costing Solutions in Catia with Catia R18
FTI® announces at the COE 2007 Automotive Industry Workshop in Dearborn, the
global availability of their entire suite of CAA based applications for Release 18 of CATIA V5. By
leveraging CATIA V5's parametric design and analysis environment, the solutions are fully
associative and regenerative to drastically reduce downstream design changes. |
catiar18pressrel.pdf |
Oct 1/07 |
FTI® Continues Growth Expansion in China
FTI® and MTECH, one of the leading providers of CAD/CAE integration
solutions in China, today announced an agreement designed to enable MTECH to be a
Preferred partner of FTI’s CATIA based software and further strengthening its local
support in China. |
mtechpressrel.pdf |
Jul 16/07 |
FTI® Continues Growth Expansion in Singapore
FTI® and ECSS, one of the leading providers of CAD/CAE/PLM
integration solutions in Singapore, today announced an agreement designed to enable
ECSS to be a Preferred partner of FTI® software and further strengthening its local support
in Singapore. |
ecsspressrel.pdf |
Jul 16/07 |
FTI® Announces New Partnership in China with CCA Engineering
FTI® and CCA, one of the leading providers of CAD/CAE
integration solutions in China, today announced an agreement designed to
enable CCA to be a Preferred partner of FTI® software and further strengthening
its local support in China. |
ccaengineeringpressrel.pdf |
Jul 16/07 |
FTI® Opens Office In India
FTI® announced the opening of a subsidiary office Forming Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. located in
Pune. FTI® India will play a key role in deploying FTI® solutions as well as offer local support in the
role of a preferred systems integrator for the Indian market place. |
ftiindiapressrel.pdf |
May 10/07 |
Rand NA & FTI® Announce
NA Distribution Partnership
RAND North America, a joint venture of
Dassault Systèmes and RAND Worldwide® (TSX: RND), and Forming Technologies Inc. (FTI®),
the world’s leading provider of software solutions for the design, feasibility, and costing of sheet
metal components, announced that RAND North America, will act as FTI’s newest CATIA solution
distribution partner. |
randftipressrel.pdf |
Mar 20/07 |
FTI® Continues Growth Expansion in Europe
FTI® and ABISSE, one of the leading providers of CAD/CAE integration solutions in France, today announced an agreement designed to enable ABISSE to be a preferred partner of FTI® software and further strengthening its local support in France. |
abissepressrel.pdf |
Jan 9/07 |
FormingSuite® 5.0 Delivers a Constellation of
Unique Value Added Technologies
FTI®® announces the worldwide release of FormingSuite® 5.0. This is a major breakthrough in technology from the traditional metal forming feasibility analysis tools to a multidisciplinary parametric and associative paradigm. FS 5.0 embodies a constellation of proprietary breakthrough technologies, including Coupled Hybrid Inverse (CHI) solver, Offset-Less Formability Technology (OFT), Topology Based Skinning (TBS), Gradient Mesher, Process History Tree (PHT), and APIs for customizations. |
fs5pressrel.pdf |
Jan 5/07 |
FTI® Announces Paradigm Shift for Formability and Costing Solutions
PHT is a history based feature tree that captures all design optimization iterations and connections. PHT enables seamless multidisciplinary interaction in one environment for ultimate ease of use. The history tree references all actions managed through constraints and relationships; nesting bridge and optimal blank layout are typical constraint and relationship. |
phtpressrel.pdf |
Dec 14/06 |
FTI® Releases CATBLANK® CAA V5 based for
Flat Pattern Development in CATIA V5
FTI®® announced
today at the Aerospace Design Expo 2006, the global availability of CATBLANK® CAA V5 based
which delivers powerful new capabilities for developing extremely accurate flat patterns for
complex geometries even if they undergo significant deformation during manufacturing. |
cbv5flatpattern.pdf |
Nov 17/06 |
FTI® Continues Growth Expansion in Europe
FTI®® and Digital Product Simulation (DPS), one of the leading providers of CAD/CAE integration solutions in France, today announced an agreement designed to enable DPS to be a Preferred partner of FTI® software and further strengthening its local support in France.
|
dpspressrel.pdf |
Nov 9/06 |
FTI®® Continues Development
of New Breakthrough Technologies
FTI®® today announces their latest technology breakthrough, Topology
Based Skinning (TBS). TBS automates the most tedious process of skin creation from a
solid represented by a group of unconnected IGES surfaces. Skinning is a pre-requisite
to Inverse, Multi-stage, and Incremental Finite Element based forming simulations, as
well as costing feasibilities.
|
tbspressrel.pdf |
Oct 13/06 |
FTI® Announces New Partnership with Road Ahead Technologies
FTI® and Road Ahead Technologies, one of the largest and most experienced RE+RP and CAV solutions provider in Taiwan and Great China, today announced an agreement designed to enable Road Ahead Technologies to be a preferred partner of FTI® software and further strengthening its local support in Taiwan and Great China.
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ftiratpressrel.pdf |
Oct 5/06 |
FTI® releases Metalforming Solutions Suite for CATIA R17, empowering a 50% reduction in Engineering Changes and Engineering Rework
FTI® today announced the global availability of their entire suite of CAA based applications for Release 17 of CATIA V5. By leveraging CATIA V5’s parametric design and analysis environment, the solutions are fully associative and regenerative to drastically reduce downstream design changes.
|
catiar17pressrel.pdf |
Oct 3/06 |
FTI® is Changing the Rules of Forming Simulation
with their New OFT Technology
Offset-Less
Formability Technology (OFT). OFT is a Finite Element based technology that simulates
mechanical elastic-plastic behavior of middle surfaces of a sheet metal parts during
forming operations through virtual offsetting of top or bottom CAD surfaces. The
offsetting is performed on a mechanical formulation level rather than on a geometrical
level.
|
oftpressrel.pdf |
Sep 29/06 |
Breakthrough Technology with FTI® CHI Solver
Coupled Hybrid Inverse (CHI) Solver. CHI is a Finite Element based coupled membrane/bending formulation, developed to handle strain gradients at feature lines and tight radii (R/t<=3). CHI tracks material particles using a passive force formulation.
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ftichipressrel.pdf |
Sep 18/06 |
FTI® Continues Growth Expansion in Europe with CADFEM GmbH
FTI® & CADFEM, one of the largest and most experienced solutions provider in Europe, today announced an agreement designed to enable CAFEM to be a Preferred partner of FTI® software and further strengthening its local support in Europe.
|
cadfempressrel.pdf |
Apr 21/06 |
FTI® Announces Release
of CATIA COSTOPTIMIZER R16 CAAV5
FTI® unveils CATIA COSTOPTIMIZER R16 CAAV5 based. COSTOPTIMIZER in CATIA is the only cost reduction solution within the CATIA environment. This fully associative and regenerative solution will identify how organizations can achieve material cost saving targets of 10-15%.
|
cor16pressrel.pdf |
Mar 8/06 |
FTI® Continues Growth Expansion in Europe
FTI® & Herbertus S.L., a company with vast experience in product and
process simulation for the sheet metal forming and other industries, today announced a
Partnership Agreement designed to enable Herbertus and FTI® to further strengthen its
local support in Spain and Portugal.
|
ftiherbertpressrel.pdf |
Feb 13/06 |
FTI®
Continues Growth Expansion in Europe
FTI® & Enginsoft (one of the largest
and most experienced CAE solutions provider in Italy)
today announced an agreement designed to enable Enginsoft
to be a preferred partner of FTI® software, thus strengthening
their relationship with their clients in Italy.
|
ftiengsoftpressrel.pdf |
Nov 24/05 |
FormingSuite 4.0 Helping Organizations Realize Productivity Gains
in Product Design
FTI® unveils FormingSuite 4.0.
"FormingSuite 4.0 is very versatile, easy to use,
and can be configured to serve a multitude of purposes
that include blank development, forming simulation,
blank nesting, and material cost estimation and optimization".
Michael
Gallagher, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, FTI®
|
fs4pressrel.pdf |
Nov 11/05 |
FormingSuite Helps Organizations Meet Material Cost Savings
Targets
"FormingSuite's new associative
and regenerative architecture marks a significant leap
in formability and costing simulation technology". Dan
Marinac, FTI®
This powerful next generation software
features unique "Best in Class" capabilities to bring better
products quickly and efficiently to market as well as identifying
how organizations can meet material cost savings of 10-15%.
|
fspressrel.pdf |
Aug 11/05 |
FTI®
Announces BLANKWORKS® 3.0 for SolidWorks
Accurate 2D Blank Shapes For
Complex 3D Sheet Metal Stampings
BlankWorks provides
SolidWorks® users
with an embedded application to determine accurate
2D blank shapes for complex 3D
sheet metal stampings.
|
bwv3pressrel.pdf |
Feb 7/05 |
FTI®
Releases COSTOPTIMIZER
Identifies Design Changes
That Reduce Material Cost
COSTOPTIMIZER is a powerful blank development, blank
nesting, and material cost optimization software specifically
designed for the evaluation of sheet metal components.
|
costoptpressrel.pdf |
Jan 4/05 |
FTI®
Releases CATSTAMP CAAV5
CATSTAMP delivers complete stamping
evaluation for product and process development. CATSTAMP
is CAAV5 based and provides CAAV5 users with detailed
formability analysis for evaluation and validation
of stamped components and draw die developments.
|
csv5pressrel.pdf |
Oct 4/04 |
FTI®
Announces New Release of CATFORM R12 CAAV5
Developed in close partnership with
Dassault Systemes, CATFORM provides CATIA R12 CAAV5
product designers with a fully integrated tool for
conducting
forming feasibility analyses on complex sheet metal
designs.
|
cfv5r12pressrel.pdf |
Apr 28/04 |
FTI®
Unveils FASTFORM® Advanced version 10.2
FTI® announces the worldwide release
of FASTFORM® Advanced version 10.2. This new release
extends the power, simplicity and reliablity of previous
releases of FTI®'s flagship software with serveral new
productivity features.
|
ffadv102pressreal.pdf |
Feb 20/04 |
FTI®
Unveils FASTBLANK® version 5
FASTBLANK® version 5 builds upon the most accurate blank development tools available in the industry
with the introduction of new import/export capabilities, wizard-based workflow, and a cost of manufacturing-oriented functionalities.
|
fbv5pressrel.pdf |
Oct 8/03 |
FTI®
Unveils FASTFORM® Advanced version 10
FTI® announces the worldwide release
of FASTFORM® Advanced version 10. Developed in close
partnership with leading automotive manufacturers and
Tier 1 suppliers, FASTFORM® Advanced provides product
and die designers with fast and accurate formability
analyses for evaluation and validation of stamped components.
|
ffadv10pressreal.pdf |
Sep 24/03 |
Get
More Parts Per Workpiece
"Forming Technologies' BlankNest optimizes
nesting for blanking, based on raw coil width and pitch."
Article on how Nesting software optimizes layout for
specific fabrication processes.
September,
2003. Forming & Fabricating®. Copyright by Society
of Manufacturing Engineers, used with permission. Vol
10 No 9
|
http://www.sme.org |
Sep 2003 |
FTI® Announces BLANKNEST® 4.0
BLANKNEST® automatically calculates the best nesting layout to
optimize material utilization and accurately determines cost
per blank. |
blanknestpressrel.pdf |
Jul 11/03 |
FTI®
Announces CATFORM CAAV5 Based
Developed in close partnership with Dassault Systemes, CATFORM provides CATIA
V5 product designers with a fully integrated tool for conducting forming feasibility
analyses on complex sheet metal designs. |
catformv5pressrel.pdf |
Mar 31/03 |
FTI®
Announces BLANKWORKS®
Powerful Blank Shape Development Integrated into SolidWorks Software.
Certified Gold Product! |
bwpressrel.pdf |
Jan 20/03 |
 FASTBLANK®
in Metal Forming Magazine
"We save $5 MILLION per year on piece price alone by using this software." Randy
Taylor - Johnson Controls Inc.
This article shows the speed and simplicity of FTI® software. |
simplesimulation.pdf |
May 01/02 |
FTI®
Becomes CAAV5 Partner
FTI® Joins Dassault Systemes' Software Community Program as a CAAV5 Partner. |
http://www.3ds.com |
Apr 15/02 |
